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crystal (chicky.blog)All the best. Been there, done that. It’s a strange feeling when everything you own is on a van and you’re finally ready to move 💪
On ANC and nausea
Thanks to @mdiluz@twitter.com I stumbled over https://web.archive.org/web/20210222010045/https://gramfree.best/features/why-i-will-never-own-a-pair-of-noise-cancelling-headphones today.
The author has a really interesting point of view about noise cancelling headphones (“ANC”) due to experiencing nausea and I came to realise how lucky I am that I do not experience this at all. Alas I am also not moving much, since I work on a desk all day long, and frankly wouldn’t be able to do my job without headphones any more.
I got my first ANC headphones due to a construction site next to our office that went on for years. It was horror. And they really helped again when I started bunking in my home office and especially in the wintertime when we all stayed inside most of the day getting into each others fur (FCK CVID).
The NHS widely encourages the use of ANC headphones, […], but because noise annoyance is a real health issue.
This basically sums it up for me. I get anxious from noise. My kids can tell, because kids tend to be, well, noisy little… ah well, parents know the drill. Anyway, one of my biggest motivations for driving for example an electric car is also way less noise. Gods know I hate car noisiness and especially motor bikes. Living in a “biker friendly” landscape turned this into a slow hot burning hate for this brainless noise pollution some people do “for fun”.
Back to nausea. I sometimes wear my headphones during a workout. Yuk, I know. Anyway, even here I don’t experience nausea or balance issues but then I don’t to acrobatics (I don’t count whacking a pell as dancing). Still I can totally get behind the point that the ANC feature is a bad idea to use while moving and using headphones in road traffic is a recipe for disaster. This may sound (haha) like a contradiction to you due to me driving an electric car? It’s not. An EV is less noisy, not silent, and even has to emit artificial sound (yuk again) when it goes too slow to be noticed.
Is “ANC” perhaps the reason I get more and more anxiety from noise? Maybe. Maybe I’m also just getting old and more and more irritated by our fast moving noisy world without a way to escape. Experience complete silence and solitude may just be my way of coping with all this.
Plot twist: I mostly enjoy Rock and Metal on my headphones 🤘
Updated link on 30. Oct 2021 link due to link rot
It turns out Breitbart has continued to collect your ad dollars through a shady ad revenue-sharing ring of propaganda sites.
My bias against the ads industry is once more confirmed: https://branded.substack.com/p/so-thats-how-breitbart-is-still-making
Hat tip @rufposten@social.tchncs.de
Heh, that’s (finally) like tomorrow and will catch many unprepared – as usual 🙂
Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial end-of-life is scheduled in April 2021, as usual I strongly suggest to update before that date, the packages in the PPA will be gone with the next PHP update as it’s impossible to update EOL release in the PPA.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/february-update-47617742
Amazing work, as usual!
Heh, I knew about “Power Mode” extensions before. Used Atom back then but they are basically available for most code editors by now.
What I didn’t know is that they can load basically any sprite. Learn here how to make #vscode sparkle: https://www.aboutmonica.com/blog/how-to-make-your-vs-code-sparkle
Hat tip Ana Rodrigues
What a day. After fixing up the little one and paying the ER a visit (she is fine) I went on and fixed the family mailserver (that is now also fine). I feel exhausted. So many patches for one day xD
Privacy is becoming more and more central in shaping the future of tech and the data protection legislation has contributed significantly to making this happen. Privacy by default and design are core principles that are fundamental to how software should be envisioned. The GDPR that came into the spotlight has a strong case to become a standard even outside European borders, influencing the way we protect personal data. However its impact might be, its implementation is still in its infancy. OSS has found itself facing the situation and one aspect which is particularly interesting on the tech side is how to incorporate the principles of privacy by default and design into the software that we build.
Hard to follow due to a lot of head movement without the mic following but a very important topic and interesting talk about #GDPR especially in combination with the #fediverse and #FOSS
https://conf.tube/videos/watch/2a48c7bf-b4a9-443c-a62d-e8dc6fda9c8e
Hat tip @sl007@mastodon.social
Last week Elastic announced that they were “Doubling Down” on open source by changing their licensing to a non-open license – MongoDB’s Server Side Public License, or SSPL. Let me clarify in my opinion this is not doubling down – unless, as our good friend @gabidavila highlighted, that m...
> Amazon [..] cloud is like Mc Donald’s
I love it already 🤣
https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/01/20/keeping-open-source-open-or-why-open-is-better/
Reader Mode
Yes cookie pop-ups are annoying. Thing is that #GDPR only exposes the issue. Guess how GDPR came to exist in the first place.
Anyway, do you know this fancy thing called “ReaderMode”? It’s built into your browser and discards basically all the fancy stuff on a website so you can focus on the text you came for in the first place. It’s right next to the URL input field. Chrome has it not enabled by default but it’s there: chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode. Firefox can even read the article to you in this mode (well, sort of).
Punch it on any website that makes you jump through hoops before you can even access a summary.